From “Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing”, 1994.
James Friedman is a fine art, portrait, architectural, commercial and personal documentary photographer. He is American, based in Columbus, Ohio, and internationally renowned. About this project : “I do not remember any kissing between family members as I was growing up. It wasn’t until my mother was hospitalized for eight months, unable to speak, that we began to kiss good-bye before I would depart for the day after visiting her. These newly discovered displays of affection were imbued with genuine caring and profound sadness as we both know she had only a short time to live. Our relationship in my mother’s final months inspired my photographic project, Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing.”
www.jamesfriedmanphotographer.com
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